Why close all roads at the same time?
I have never seen such an array of Windsor road closures for construction in my life. I cannot believe this many closures at once are allowed.
The first example is the E.C. Row Expressway. Instead of just closing a westbound lane between Howard Avenue and Walker Road, an eastbound lane is closed as well. Really? That expressway has been nothing but a piece of garbage that goes nowhere. It was obsolete before it was built, but they still manage to try to fix and repair it yearly to no avail.
If the city wants to see how a beautiful piece of road work is done, just look at the way the Herb Gray Parkway was built.
No matter what road you try to travel in the city, it is either closed or down to one lane. This city does not have enough roads for the amount of traffic, let alone for the majority of them to be repaired at the same time. The number of streets reduced to one lane or closed for construction is just disgusting and does nothing but irritate drivers.
The city is so far behind with road work it is a joke, but no one is laughing. Why can’t the city pay workers overtime for night work when there is less traffic?
When I drive by road work and see two men working and eight standing around watching them, I wonder how the repairs are going to get done in a reasonable amount of time.
Taxpayers want to see the roads fixed and taken care of but not in this manner. Lydia Acchione, Windsor
There’s right way to merge into traffic
We are into another season of single-lane traffic to navigate back and forth across the city every day.
Unfortunately, we have to suffer another season of people lining up into a single lane long before the lane merges, thus backing traffic up even further and slowing things down. All the while we have to deal with those selfproclaimed traffic police trying to block a totally empty traffic lane for two kilometres from the people who actually understand how traffic should flow.
Please do yourselves all a favour and look up zipper merge. You’ll soon find that study after study has found the same thing. Using both lanes right up until the lane merges and calmly allowing each car to alternate into the single lane is the fastest, safest and fairest way to merge two lanes into one.
No one has to line up kilometres before the lane merge while watching others drive up a perfectly usable empty lane. What I would like to see is the police actually policing the self-proclaimed lane blockers.
It’s frankly dangerous and illegal to block an empty lane simply because you think it’s unfair for someone else to drive in a usable lane. William Gauci, Windsor